Attorney General John Jeremie says he has visited high-risk prisoners at Teteron Barracks in Chaguaramas and, while it is not the Hyatt hotel, the premises are secure.

The AG said yesterday he was not entertaining requests for meals or other privileges from the detainees, noting their rights were secondary to those of the people of Trinidad and Tobago, given intelligence reports that they allegedly posed an existential threat to the State.

Jeremie moved a motion to approve the Prisons (No 2) Order, 2025, at an extraordinary sitting of the Senate yesterday. The order retroactively re-designates Teteron Barracks and Staubles Bay as prisons, rather than “district prisons”.